Horrified me too, at that age. I belong to me.

I remember going to my aunt and uncles weddings in the 70s. Listening to the ceremony, I'd be thinking "No no no." Not for me, not even that much of a sacrifice.

Needless to say, I never married.

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nogwart@reddit

I convinced my 16 year old daughter and her boyfriend to watch Caddyshack with me. They did not so much as smirk, smile or mildly chuckle even once throughout the entire movie.

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GTA4EVER1069@reddit

Have him listen to the theme song with the lyrics...

Temporary_Nail_6468@reddit

So I just looked it up and found that Thundercats is available to watch on Disney+ and I want my boys to watch it with me but I’m afraid they won’t like it and it’ll spoil it for me.

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rokken70@reddit

Army of Darkness. My nephew thought it was too weird.

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Just-Challenge-5522@reddit

Omg my kids were the same. It made me sad.

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moopet@reddit

This is why I don't want kids. Too scared they'll be wrong about everything.

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My daughter discovered it at 20, binged he whole series over a summer and used it to write a few college papers (film major). I was able to get her a signed script for Xmas that year and now we’re trying to get all the seasons on dvd, which is harder than you think. It was great to see her embrace it so completely.

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puddycat20@reddit

we’re trying to get all the seasons on dvd, which is harder than you think.

It's odd, isn't it?
While our generation was definitely told to hold onto our youth for as long as we could..it was our choice.
somewhere between here and there, we started enforcing youth by being very protective and in 80% of cases, this is great! We knew where our children were and who they were with...but we also censored reality for them a bit too much. Little House on the Prairie prided itself on taking on tough issues and most other tv shows did the same...at least once a year for the "Special-we-hope-to-win-an-emmy-Episode"

remember when Different Strokes had a scam photographer trying to get the teen girl character to pose nude? That was repeated on Facts of Life, Family Ties, Silver Spoons, Webster, Growing Pains, CHiPs, and many an afternoon special. (and FAME) In an odd way, we were more prepared by this PSA tv format to avoid cell phone nudes than our children were. And to be aware of internet fishing...

My 25yo son was quoting Airplane the other day and laughing his ass off while doing so. He also loves Monty Python.

His twin sister and younger sister think we’re both dorks and don’t get it.

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ItsGotToMakeSense@reddit

They couldn't get into E.T at all, seemed bored (maybe I'll try again now that they've seen Stranger Things)

They thought Ghostbusters was just OK and were not scared by it at all; some of the special effects aged really poorly. That library ghost scared the shit out of me at 5 years old, but they laughed at it.

They loved Gremlins and the Neverending Story, and they liked Labyrinth but it didn't become an instant favorite

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GoldenMonkeyRedux@reddit

My kid really likes Paul Thomas Anderson films. I find that really weird because i want to watch Dumb & Dumber.

What kid loves Magnolia?

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Fudloe@reddit

I always hated that show. Something about the entire vibe of it turned me off.

However, the movie is in my top 5 dessert island movies.

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Key-Contest-2879@reddit

“Bjork to Black Sabbath, Eraserhead to Summer School.”

Sounds like a well rounded kid! 👍

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silgryphon@reddit

Mash put me to sleep

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Repulsive-Ice8395@reddit

The theme song was my signal to go to bed.

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tiltedsun@reddit

Animal House. I think it’s because later movies lifted some of the gags.

Starting at a young age, I got my daughter to agree to a 10-minute rule, that she would give a suggestion of mine at least 10 minutes before deciding to not continue watching it (later, I became subject to the same rule, for her suggestions).

I guess it pays to be older and more experienced.

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EverythingScrolling@reddit

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AJayBee3000@reddit

I laugh just thinking about the “Putting on the Ritz” scene.

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Odd_Praline181@reddit

DISOWN!

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jfrankparnell85@reddit

BLUCHER! *horses neighing”

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Odd_Praline181@reddit

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MASH did not age well. The alcohol, womanizing, they make it feel more real but also really dated.

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loCAtek@reddit

You think the troops don't build moonshine stills today?

StillC5sdad@reddit

The Ref

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Reboot-Glitchspark@reddit

Cop Rock.

Ok, it actually landed exactly as it should have. That was the most ridiculously stupid show ever, with such over-the-top terrible musical scenes.

Hmm, very odd. Might just be your kids, or their mood in the moment.

I was at Grandma's. The kids of my cousins were acting up, play fighting in the basement, where I was reading a book. While I wasn't exactly egging them on, I was telling the boys that their girl cousins were fighting better than them. So my aunt comes down stairs, went to put on Fievel Goes West. Her go-to solution they'd all seen a million times.

They all groaned. The 12 year old, a girl, grabbed Princess Bride off the shelf and said, "How about this instead?" to which my aunt agreed. The boys stopped play fighting, and the youngest groaned, "That's a girl movie." One of the other boys (the girl's younger brother) grabbed his still younger cousin by the shoulders and said, "No. You have to see this" with big eyes.

I was all for it too, despite being a man pushing 50, partly because of the interactions between cousins, the initiation. I was watching the kids as much as the film!

The kid that protested was engaged the moment he saw Fred Savage's character, about his own age, and sunk into it by the time Buttercup gets kidnapped. When his dad came, "Time to go", the sword fight between Inigo Montoya and The Dread Pirate Roberts was just about to begin.

I watched Airplane as a kid and since I'm not from the US I only found this factoid out recently. I've still no idea what Leave It To Beaver is.

Kali-ma! Kali-ma!

perseidot@reddit

No, no. I gotchu.

I have it on a playlist myself.

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3-kids-no-money@reddit

A-team and night rider. Kids just couldn’t get into them. They did like little house on the prairie for a summer.

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Taffy_the_wonderdog@reddit

Netflix is doing a Little House reboot. It drops in July.

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Pendragenet@reddit

First, MASH was a new thing in tv - a dramedy. It was part serious and part comedy. TV hadn't really ever done that before. You had shows like Hogan's Heroes and McHale's Navy that were just silly little shows - really no different than Gilligan's Island.

But MASH brought more to the table. It showed the effects of war, the tragedy and the senselessness. It showed the people in the war as actual humans not John Wayne tough guys.

It was so much more than the jokes. And the characters weren't caricatures. They were real flawed people.

I grew up on MASH. It showed me that life wasn't black & white. And it showed me that humor is a defense mechanism. It's sad that kids today can't get anything out of it.

Second, I think it's just sad to see comments putting down shows that were important to prior generations. Oh it's so boomer! and such.

I gained so much by being open to what came before. I gained far better sense of humor - not one based on insults and toilet jokes. When I think of the books and movies and music I would have missed by dismissing them as boomer or silent or greatest generation twat, I am grateful my mom encouraged me to explore.

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EverythingScrolling@reddit

I think you have to be a little older to appreciate MASH. My parents watched it religiously, both when it aired, and as I was growing up. I didn't hate it, but I didn't seek it out either. Then I fell into it through TV Land marathons, and now I do appreciate it.

I may be in the minority, but I never much cared for Henry Blake. And I thought Charles was a better foil for Pierce and Hunnicutt than Frank.

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Pendragenet@reddit

I don't know. I know younger people who watched it faithfully. And I know younger people today who enjoy it.

I think with Henry vs Colonel Potter and Frank vs Charles that the second characters came in after MASH had become such a success as a dramedy. Their characters were allowed to be more real. Henry and Frank were victims of the early years when the writers were fighting to include serious issues. By the time their characters were allowed to have any growth, it was too late. Potter and Charles were able to build on their characters far sooner. HotLips was given more depth from the start - she had to have a backbone to have been in charge of the nurses, so it was easier for her character to grow over time. I think Radar had to leave because his innocent manchild character was too much for them to change. Klinger on the other hand wasn't innocent, so his character could be moved away from the lunatic trying to get a section 8 into a guy stuck in the war and making the best of it.

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la_winky@reddit

I watched MASH growing up. The characters were pretty awesomely fleshed out with some depth. But it was still funny.

Remember that the commercial break in the final episode was so watched they estimated some insane number of toilet flushes occurred during that break? Many many people watched it.

Then I was stationed in Korea for two years many years later. Which was cool. It’s a beautiful country and they shot the show in CA? I think? But it did capture the landscape / vibe pretty well.

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Pendragenet@reddit

Yeah, they shot it at Malibu Creek State Park in Southern California.

I was so mad that I missed the final episode - it was years before I ever got to see it.

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perseidot@reddit

I agree with everything you just said.

Also, the historical context is important. My father’s a Silent Gen veteran of the war in Korea. He got out as the war in Vietnam was starting - because he wasn’t doing another undeclared land war in SE Asia.

I was born in ‘74. The war in Vietnam ended (for the US) in April ‘75.

MASH ran from ‘72-‘83. Then it ran in reruns for years.

When I watched it with my Dad, he was also thinking about being in Korea and trying to come to terms with that. He didn’t say very much, but sometimes he teared up. Sometimes we talked about the episodes. Sometimes he’d talk about (some of!) what they did on leave.

Vietnam vets had it rough coming back to the US. Some people treated the troops as though they were monsters - and some of them had done truly monstrous things.

We needed a way to talk about the humanity of the men and women in uniform, and the inhumanity of war. And the occasional monster.

MASH did that for our parents, and maybe helped us understand them a little better.

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Fine-Philosophy8939@reddit

Forced our college kids to watch Animal House and at the end they were most upset by all the exam cheating

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Phog_of_War@reddit

I bet the Spies Like Us exam scene would drive them crazy

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CrowGeneral8673@reddit

It’s a dickfer

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EmperorSkyTiger@reddit

I don't know if it didn't land, but it's one of my cherished memories. My youngest was probably 5 or 6 and REALLY wanted to watch Aliens for some reason. I grew up watching horror movie from a young age, so I explained that it's pretty scary and a little gory at some points. He didn't care. He insisted we watch it together.

We have a cat that picked my kiddo from our local rescue that got named Bishop. Towards the end of the movie, my then little dude asked me to stop the movie to ask me a question:

"Daddy, is our Bishop made of milk too?"

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rokken70@reddit

I hated it when I was a kid. But love it now. It’s a masterpiece.

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RemyJe@reddit

Holy cow, I did not expect the MAS*H hate. It’s one of the best shows ever. It was funny then and is funny now, and was ahead of its time on a variety of relevant issues.

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soonerpgh@reddit

I never really cared for it that much. It wasn't a bad show, just didnt really trip my trigger. The Rockford Files, Simon and Simon, those were my favorites.

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1hero_no_cape@reddit

I showed my kids an episode of Fat Albert about 15 years ago.

I don't know anyone who like the Super Mario Brothers movie that much.

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LadyNorbert@reddit

I was talking about The Princess Bride - I see now how it was unclear.

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oldfogey12345@reddit

The Princess Bride was a good, bland, silly fairy tale.

It's a long music video

Not even the ending? When the woman is making googly faces at her baby and not Vince Vaughn?!?

Our son was in martial arts from age 8 till, well, he's still doing it at 34. My husband thought he would LOVE the Chuck Norris movies he had enjoyed himself. He did not. He was not impressed AT ALL with the Chuck Norris movies. He was mildly entertained by some Bruce Lee stuff.

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ThatMichaelsEmployee@reddit

Do you watch sports? Or concerts? Watching people play video games is not dissimilar: you're watching people do something entertaining and doing it much, much better than you can do yourself.

I'm in my sixties and I love to watch talented gamers do their stuff on YouTube. Some of them are just amazingly good at it, and some gamers use exploits to do things that shouldn't be possible, which is always a blast.

You know what's really horrible? Watching unboxings. That's absolutely inexcusable, the worst of late-stage capitalism. But watching gamers play well is fun.

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heynow941@reddit

Really even shows like The Office that are only 20 years old have 2000’s references that would go over younger people’s heads.

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Boo-Boo97@reddit

I think a lot of early 2000's show are going to age badly because the pop culture references will lose relevance. I like the Big Bang Theory but in 10 years most kids aren't likely to understand the references to get the jokes.

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stromm@reddit

Uh, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) is the third film in The Mummy series. No Tom Cruise.

LimeSalty4092@reddit

As a kid I actually walked out of Goonies after the first 30 minutes bc it was too vulgar

The whole extended scene where they break and attempt to fix the penis on the statue of David went on way way too long

An extended dick joke doesn’t really play for a 9yo girl, so I was disgusted and left the room

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SnooBooks007@reddit

I used to live that movie as a kid, but I saw it recently and yikes!

It's just a bunch of annoying prurient children who won't shut up or sit still for a moment. Awful!

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thelimeisgreen@reddit

Like many of us, I saw The Goonies when the movie first came out. Owned the VHS tape, watched it a fair number of times. Then didn't see it for a long time. I introduced my kids to it when they were like 9 and 10 years old... They enjoyed it. But oh, damn was it painful to watch. I instantly understood why my dad hated the movie and why he was visibly uncomfortable sitting through it. It's just super annoying and it doesn't flow, too much screaming and yeah, I wish I hadn't re-watched because it ruined my fond memories of it.

It's far darker than we usually remember. My kid fave not shits about it.

It is hit or miss with my daughter. She is 14. Didn't really care about the Goonies. She got obsessed with a few though. Phantasm. Puppet Master. The original Texas Chainsaw. There are posters on her wall and patches on her battle jacket. Also loves Wayne's World and Bill and Ted.

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PepsiOfWrath@reddit

So so, so so so much, but unlike MAS*H I realized a lot of what I really loved didn’t actually hold up, and it wasn’t necessarily well written. Content is just superior now for a lot of things.